Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvMichael Anderegg

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The author considers Orson Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for 20th-century American popular audiences. The text explores his work on stage, radio and in film, and reveals his position as an artist of both high and popular culture. Anderegg illustrates how Welles tried to transcend the barriers between the classical and the popular, and argues that Welles sought to restore the lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in 19th-century America. Anderegg also examines Welles's three adaptations of Shakespeare, the public reception of them, his work as an actor and the view that he squandered his talents after in the era after "Citizen Kane".

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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-20
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFilm and Culture Series
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231112284

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1. Shakespeare in Las Vegas: Welles and American Culture 2. "Raise Hell with Everything": Shakespeare as Event 3. "Cashing in on the Classics": Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records 4. Welles/Shakespeare/Film: An Overview 5. Shakespeare Rides Again: The Republic Macbeth 6. The Texts of Othello 7. Chimes at Midnight: Rhetoric and History 8. Welles as Performer: From Shakespeare to Brecht Epilogue

"Andregg provides an eloquent illustration of how, when Welles scholarship is at its best, it avoids the biographical and panoramic in favor of a particular theme or angle of investigation and, in the course of pursuing that angle, brings a fresh understanding to the Wellesian tapestry as a whole." -- Catherine Benamou, Michigan Quarterly Review "A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work -- particullarly Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records -- but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of This is Orson Welles